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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Friday Quotes: Long Way Down

Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Rose City Reader. Share the opening quote from the book.The Friday 56 is hosted atFreda's Voice. Find a quote from page 56.Check out the links for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Participants don't
select their favorite, coolest, or most intellectual books, they just use the one they are currently reading. This is the book I'm reading right now---Title:Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Book Beginning:DON'T NOBODYBelieve nothingthese dayswhich is why I haven'ttold nobody the storyI'm about to tell youAnd truth is,you probably ain't gon' believe it eithergon' think I'm lyingor I'm losing it...Friday 56: (56% on e-book)BUT TO EXPLAIN MYSELFI said,The Rules are the rules.Comment: If you haven't heard of this book, it is about a boy who is considering killing the person he thinks killed his brother. While he is on the elevator heading out to do the deed he is visited by six "ghosts" of people killed by guns. It is very distressing to think that this book is reporting a truth, that a lot of killings in the inner city are considered honor killings...you killed my brother, so I will kill you. When will it stop? The whole book is written in verse. On occasion I had a hard time telling who was speaking and what was being discussed, but I got the gist of the message. Very powerful.

I have read a few novels in verse. I like them and will have to add this one to my stack both because of the verse and the powerful message. This week I am spotlighting The Human Division by John Scalzi. Happy reading!

Wow! I just had to check this one out more closely and Goodreads has one powerful premise to introduce this book. You can't really even call this a story, because as many of you pointed out, it is all too much a reality of real life in the modern times.

Probably not something I would read, however it sounds like the kind of book which all teenagers should be encouraged, if not mandated to read, as part of the middle school education curriculum?